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Feb 8, 1915: D. W. Griffith's controversial landmark film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles. It made Griffith a millionaire.

The film portrays its black characters (many of whom are played by white actors in blackface) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive toward white women. The Ku Klux Klan is portrayed as a heroic force that protects white women and maintains white supremacy.


The film was controversial even before its release and it has remained so since; it has been called "the most controversial film ever made in the United States", as well as "the most reprehensibly racist film in Hollywood history". Protests & riots ensued upon its release. It was also denied release in the state of Ohio and the cities of Chicago, Denver, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Minneapolis. Griffith's indignation at efforts to censor or ban the film motivated him to produce Intolerance the following year.

By the time he finished filming, Griffith had shot approximately 150,000 feet of footage (approximately 36 hours of film), which he edited down to 13,000 feet (just over 3 hours). The film was edited after early screenings in reaction to audience reception (Hollywood still does the same today), and existing prints of the film are missing footage from the standard version of the film.

Film critic Roger Ebert deemed The Birth of a Nation "a great film that argues for evil". Interesting how this stirring the pot film was released about 6 months after WWI started. The United States did not officially enter World War I until April 6, 1917.


Feb 8, 1924: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Carson City, Nevada. Gee Jon, an immigrant from China, member of the Hop Sing Tong, a San Francisco-based Asian organized crime group was executed by hydrocyanic gas. Witnesses were newspaper men so you know we got a straight honest story! The (leaky) gas chamber was first tested using two cats. Oh, the horror! No PETA back then.

Nevada’s history with the gas chamber is unique. Nevada was the first government jurisdiction in the world to approve lethal gas as a form of execution when the state legalized it in 1921. Up to then, prisoners sentenced to death had their choice – hanging or firing squad.


In 1983, the Nevada Legislature changed the state’s official method of execution from lethal gas to lethal injection.
Nevada gas chamber chair goes on display


Feb 8, 1969: Casting director Marvin Schwarz met with dwindling star Rick Dalton, to convince him to play the lead in Italian Westerns. Sharon Tate attended a party at the Playboy Mansion.




The 1983 Melbourne dust storm was a meteorological phenomenon that occurred during the afternoon of February 8, 1983, throughout much of Victoria, Australia and affected the state capital, Melbourne. Red soil, dust and sand from Central and Southeastern Australia was swept up in high winds and carried southeast through Victoria. The dust storm was one of the most dramatic consequences of the 1982/83 drought, at the time the worst in Australian history and is, in hindsight, viewed as a precursor to the Ash Wednesday bushfires which were to occur eight days later. At the time it was also the hottest day ever recorded for February.

Victoria was in the grip of drought when Melbourne was smothered by a giant dust storm blown in from the mallee deserts during the afternoon of Tuesday 8 February 1983.

Earlier in the morning a strong, but dry, cold front began crossing Victoria, preceded by hot, gusty northerly winds.

The temperature in the city rose quickly as the north wind strengthened, and by 2:35 pm it had reached 43.2 degrees.

The 300 metre high dust cloud stretched over 500 km from Mildura to Melbourne and extended on a 150 km wide front.

It reached the city by 2.55 pm and the sky went black.

Winds of up to 140 km/h were reported at Point Lonsdale while at Mornington, gusts reached 100 km/h. In the city, winds reached 85 km/h.

The storm cut power, damaged houses, uprooted trees, disrupted train services and ripped boats from moorings.

The worst of the dust storm was over by 4 pm when the wind dropped as the cool change arrived. There was no rain and everything was covered in a layer of dust.

But more significantly, the exact weather pattern that caused the dust storm, with high temperatures and strong northwest winds followed by a strong southwest change, was repeated eight days later during the catastrophic Ash Wednesday bushfires.

1983 Melbourne dust storm – countdown to catastrophe

A catastrophic dust storm engulfs Melbourne in 1983

The Melbourne dust-storm of February 1983

ATV-10 Eyewitness News 1983 on Melbourne dust storm & heatwave



Here's a more dramatic dust storm narration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0E1xEDK0bw


TIME Feb 8, 1993:




Feb 8, 1998: the X-Files episode "Chinga", written by Chris Carter & Stephen King, aired.




There's still a massive incuriosity in the media as to why Epstein was funding & gathering geneticists around himself, and still nearly zero attention paid to Zorro Ranch in New Mexico. But the blackmail if there was any and the sex scandals was never the end of the story, it's just why there's a story at all. And we still don't know what the story is really about.

Did the FBI ever search the Ranch? They raided his NYC pad, Miami mansion and the island and his pad over in Paris but apparently never the Ranch. This email was 5 months after Epstein died or disappeared.



About Zorro Ranch, the first 15 minutes here is especially interesting:




The only thing we seem to have is his JEE's GMAIL and some redacted court docs. The DOJ has stated they are NOT going to prosecute anyone named in the emails which I assume also means the redacted names. The latest DOJ drop is not even the full tip of the iceberg. But, now we can see the picture coming in one scan line at a time. It's like we're receiving a transmission from Voyager 1.

Not to worry, the Twixter bot mob will "bring down the system" which typically means a no shopping day followed by a mob screaming slogans at people who don't care & just want to get to work. Powerful, world changing stuff. Really. They're so brave!



"And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast."
— Revelation 13:3



https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2020309562717602139

Truth be told, nobody thought Gorbachev was tough. Beloved by Western neolibs who believed the 90s would last forever and that broken Russia would aspire to nothing more than remaining its traumatized puppy. Forbes, 2017: "Stalin is far more popular with Russians than Gorbachev." You don't say!